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Green climate help for poor nations needed
2015-11-08 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's Green Climate Fund announced Friday that it had approved finance for its first projects to help developing countries fight global warming, three weeks before a crucial world summit to ink a climate rescue pact. Finance is a divisive issue as rich and developing nations negotiate a global agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and conference host France has said firm money commitments will be key to getting an agreement in December. The GCF said in a statement its board had...
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UN fund approves its first climate aid for poor nations
2015-11-06 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) said Friday it had approved its first financing of projects to help developing countries fight global warming, three weeks before a summit opens in Paris to ink a climate rescue pact. Finance is a divisive issue as rich and developing nations negotiate a global agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and conference host France has said firm money commitments will be key to getting an agreement in December. The GCF said in a statement its board had approved...
Poor nations struggle to spend climate aid billions
2015-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Billions of dollars pledged by developed nations in climate finance over the last decade remain unused as poor countries that often most need the money are ill-equipped to spend it, international charity WaterAid said on Tuesday. Despite donors' willingness to provide funding, vulnerable countries worst hit by rising climate pressures such as droughts and floods often lack the capacity to implement, manage and oversee projects to help them cope, WaterAid said. "Countries that are most in need...
Cities, not nations, lead fight against climate change
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South China Morning Post: It is cities, not nations, that will play a bigger role in preventing the worlds temperatures from rising more than two degrees following landmark climate talks in Paris, according to an official from a global network on climate change. Government leaders and representatives from around the world will meet in the French capital at the end of this month and into December with hopes of producing a legally binding agreement to cap global warming. The mayors of the world are those in the best...
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8 Arctic Nations Join Forces for Coastal Security
2015-11-01 02:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Coast guard agencies of the eight Arctic nations Friday officially signed a joint statement establishing a new intergovernmental security body -- the Arctic Coast Guard Forum. Membership includes Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Russian Federation and the United States. The Arctic Coast Guard Forum is an "operationally-focused, consensus-based organization" that aims to leverage collective resources to foster safe, secure and environmentally responsible maritime activity...
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